Welfare Implications of Personalized Pricing in Competitive Platform Markets: The Role of Network Effects
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Keywords
personalized pricing; uniform prices; two-sided market; content developers;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2024-04-08 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-DES-2024-04-08 (Economic Design)
- NEP-IND-2024-04-08 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MIC-2024-04-08 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-PAY-2024-04-08 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
- NEP-REG-2024-04-08 (Regulation)
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